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12 Volkhonka Ulitsa
Tel: 203-9578/7798
Metro: Kropotkinskaya
Hours: 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Tues-Sun.
This is to Moscow what the Hermitage is to St.
Petersburg -- the major collection of Western art and antiquities.
In 1995, it confessed to owning hundreds of works seized from
Germany by the Red Army after World War II. These revelations fueled
worldide debate regarding their restitution. In 1997, the Russian
parliament passed a bill that made the art property of the Russian
state.
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